1659 in France
# 1659 in France

Events from the year 1659 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XIV

## Events

* 21 May – France, the Commonwealth of England, and the Dutch Republic sign the Concert of The Hague.
* 7 November – Treaty of Pyrenees: French King Louis XIV and King Philip IV of Spain agree to French acquisition of Roussillon and
* The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris.
* Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.

## Births

* 4 March – Pierre Lepautre (1659–1744), French artist (d. 1744)
* 8 March – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
* 22 June – Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure, French officer and governor of Acadia (d. 1711)
* 18 July – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
   * Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor (d. 1715)

## Deaths

* 16 January – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
* 17 February – Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
* 8 October – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian (b. c. 1603)
